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Matelote \Mat"e*lote\, Matelotte \Mat"e*lotte\, n. [F. matelote, fr. matelot a sailor; properly, a dish such as a sailors prepare.] 1. A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc. 2. An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe. | |
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Matelote \Mat"e*lote\ (m[acr]t"[esl]*l[omac]t), n. [F., fr. matelot a sailor; properly, a dish such as sailors prepare.] A dish of food composed of many kinds of fish. | |
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Matelote \Mat"e*lote\, Matelotte \Mat"e*lotte\, n. [F. matelote, fr. matelot a sailor; properly, a dish such as a sailors prepare.] 1. A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc. 2. An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe. | |
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Medal \Med"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Medaled}, or {Medalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Medaling} or {Medalling}.] To honor or reward with a medal. [bd]Medaled by the king.[b8] --Thackeray. | |
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Medalet \Med"al*et\, n. A small medal. | |
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Medal \Med"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Medaled}, or {Medalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Medaling} or {Medalling}.] To honor or reward with a medal. [bd]Medaled by the king.[b8] --Thackeray. | |
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Meddle \Med"dle`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Meddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Meddling}.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. m[88]ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. [?] See {Mix}, and cf. {Medley}, {Mellay}.] 1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. --Shak. 2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- [?] a good sense. [Obs.] --Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. --Tyndale. 3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. --Locke. {To meddle and make}, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] --Shak. Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle. | |
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Medullated \Me*dul"la*ted\, a. (Anat.) Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber. | |
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{Nerve fiber} (Anat.), one of the fibers of which nerves are made up. These fibers are either {medullated} or {nonmedullated}. in both kinds the essential part is the translucent threadlike axis cylinder which is continuous the whole length of the fiber. {Nerve stretching} (Med.), the operation of stretching a nerve in order to remedy diseases such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections. | |
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Medullated \Me*dul"la*ted\, a. (Anat.) Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber. | |
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{Nerve fiber} (Anat.), one of the fibers of which nerves are made up. These fibers are either {medullated} or {nonmedullated}. in both kinds the essential part is the translucent threadlike axis cylinder which is continuous the whole length of the fiber. {Nerve stretching} (Med.), the operation of stretching a nerve in order to remedy diseases such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections. | |
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Metaldehyde \Me*tal"de*hyde\, n. [Pref. met- + aldehyde.] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same. | |
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Metal \Met"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Metaled} (? [or] ?) or {Metalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Metaling} or {Metalling}.] To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road. | |
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Metal \Met"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Metaled} (? [or] ?) or {Metalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Metaling} or {Metalling}.] To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road. | |
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Metalloid \Met"al*loid\, n. [L. metallum metal + -oid: cf. F. m[82]tallo[8b]de.] (a) Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined. (b) Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids. | |
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Metalloid \Met"al*loid\, a. 1. Having the appearance of a metal. 2. (Chem.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative. | |
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Metalloidal \Met`al*loid"al\, a. Metalloid. | |
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Metallotherapy \Me*tal`lo*ther"a*py\, n. [L. metallum metal + E. therapy.] (Med.) Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body. | |
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; -- called also {methol}, {carbinol}, etc. {Methyl amine} (Chem.), a colorless, inflammable, alkaline gas, {CH3.NH2}, having an ammoniacal, fishy odor. It is produced artificially, and also occurs naturally in herring brine and other fishy products. It is regarded as ammonia in which a third of its hydrogen is replaced by methyl, and is a type of the class of substituted ammonias. {Methyl ether} (Chem.), a light, volatile ether {CH3.O.CH3}, obtained by the etherification of methyl alcohol; -- called also {methyl oxide}. {Methyl green}. (Chem.) See under {Green}, n. {Methyl orange}. (Chem.) See {Helianthin}. {Methyl violet} (Chem.), an artificial dye, consisting of certain methyl halogen derivatives of rosaniline. | |
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Sylvan \Syl"van\, n. [Sylva + furfuran.] (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also {methyl tetrol}, or {methyl furfuran}. | |
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Thiotolene \Thi`o*to"lene\, n. [Thio- + toluene.] (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid, {C4H3S.CH3}, analogous to, and resembling, toluene; -- called also {methyl thiophene}. | |
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Methylate \Meth"yl*ate\, n. [Methyl + alcoholate.] (Chem.) An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, {CH3ONa}. | |
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Methylate \Meth"yl*ate\, v. t. To impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol. | |
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Methylated \Meth"yl*a`ted\, a. (Chem.) Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits. | |
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Mettled \Met"tled\, a. Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire. --Addison. | |
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Middle \Mid"dle\, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [?][?][?][?]. See {Mid}, a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J. Davies. Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. {Middle Ages}, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. {Middle class}, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M. Arnold. {Middle distance}. (Paint.) See {Middle-ground}. {Middle English}. See {English}, n., 2. {Middle Kingdom}, China. {Middle oil} (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and 230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil. {Middle passage}, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies. {Middle post}. (Arch.) Same as {King-post}. {Middle States}, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] {Middle term} (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. --Brande. {Middle tint} (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. --Fairholt. {Middle voice}. (Gram.) See under {Voice}. {Middle watch}, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Middle weight}, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as {light weights}, {heavy weights}, etc. | |
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Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See {Sue} to follow, and cf. {Secund}.] 1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. --Landor. 3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak. {Second Adventist}. See {Adventist}. {Second cousin}, the child of a cousin. {Second-cut file}. See under {File}. {Second distance} (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also {middle ground}, or {middle distance}. [R.] {Second estate} (Eng.), the House of Peers. {Second girl}, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table. {Second intention}. See under {Intention}. {Second story}, {Story floor}, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the {first floor}, the one beneath being the ground floor. {Second} {thought [or] thoughts}, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. --Dickens. | |
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3. (Racing) A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. --L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being 80 yards in races of mile heats, best two in three, and 150 yards in races of two-mile heats. At that distance from the winning post is placed the distance post. If any horse has not reached this distance post before the first horse in that heat has reached the winning post, such horse is distanced, and disqualified for running again during that race. 4. (Mil.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with {interval}, which is measured from right to left. [bd]Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards.[b8] --Farrow. 5. Space between two antagonists in fencing. --Shak. 6. (Painting) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape. Note: In a picture, the {Middle distance} is the central portion between the foreground and the distance or the extreme distance. In a perspective drawing, the {Point of distance} is the point where the visual rays meet. 7. Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. --Locke. 8. Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events. Ten years' distance between one and the other. --Prior. The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years. --Playfair. 9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness. I hope your modesty Will know what distance to the crown is due. --Dryden. 'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld. --Atterbury. 10. A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve. Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. --Bacon. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. --Milton. 11. Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor. 12. (Mus.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh. {Angular distance}, the distance made at the eye by lines drawn from the eye to two objects. {Lunar distance}. See under {Lunar}. {North polar distance} (Astron.), the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination. {Zenith distance} (Astron.), the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith of the observer. It is the complement of the altitude. {To keep one's distance}, to stand aloof; to refrain from familiarity. If a man makes keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time. --Swift. | |
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Middle \Mid"dle\, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [?][?][?][?]. See {Mid}, a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J. Davies. Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. {Middle Ages}, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. {Middle class}, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M. Arnold. {Middle distance}. (Paint.) See {Middle-ground}. {Middle English}. See {English}, n., 2. {Middle Kingdom}, China. {Middle oil} (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and 230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil. {Middle passage}, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies. {Middle post}. (Arch.) Same as {King-post}. {Middle States}, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] {Middle term} (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. --Brande. {Middle tint} (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. --Fairholt. {Middle voice}. (Gram.) See under {Voice}. {Middle watch}, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Middle weight}, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as {light weights}, {heavy weights}, etc. | |
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Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See {Sue} to follow, and cf. {Secund}.] 1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. --Landor. 3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak. {Second Adventist}. See {Adventist}. {Second cousin}, the child of a cousin. {Second-cut file}. See under {File}. {Second distance} (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also {middle ground}, or {middle distance}. [R.] {Second estate} (Eng.), the House of Peers. {Second girl}, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table. {Second intention}. See under {Intention}. {Second story}, {Story floor}, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the {first floor}, the one beneath being the ground floor. {Second} {thought [or] thoughts}, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. --Dickens. | |
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3. (Racing) A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. --L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being 80 yards in races of mile heats, best two in three, and 150 yards in races of two-mile heats. At that distance from the winning post is placed the distance post. If any horse has not reached this distance post before the first horse in that heat has reached the winning post, such horse is distanced, and disqualified for running again during that race. 4. (Mil.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with {interval}, which is measured from right to left. [bd]Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards.[b8] --Farrow. 5. Space between two antagonists in fencing. --Shak. 6. (Painting) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape. Note: In a picture, the {Middle distance} is the central portion between the foreground and the distance or the extreme distance. In a perspective drawing, the {Point of distance} is the point where the visual rays meet. 7. Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. --Locke. 8. Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events. Ten years' distance between one and the other. --Prior. The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years. --Playfair. 9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness. I hope your modesty Will know what distance to the crown is due. --Dryden. 'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld. --Atterbury. 10. A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve. Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. --Bacon. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. --Milton. 11. Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor. 12. (Mus.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh. {Angular distance}, the distance made at the eye by lines drawn from the eye to two objects. {Lunar distance}. See under {Lunar}. {North polar distance} (Astron.), the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination. {Zenith distance} (Astron.), the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith of the observer. It is the complement of the altitude. {To keep one's distance}, to stand aloof; to refrain from familiarity. If a man makes keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time. --Swift. | |
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Middle \Mid"dle\, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [?][?][?][?]. See {Mid}, a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J. Davies. Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. {Middle Ages}, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. {Middle class}, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M. Arnold. {Middle distance}. (Paint.) See {Middle-ground}. {Middle English}. See {English}, n., 2. {Middle Kingdom}, China. {Middle oil} (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and 230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil. {Middle passage}, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies. {Middle post}. (Arch.) Same as {King-post}. {Middle States}, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] {Middle term} (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. --Brande. {Middle tint} (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. --Fairholt. {Middle voice}. (Gram.) See under {Voice}. {Middle watch}, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Middle weight}, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as {light weights}, {heavy weights}, etc. | |
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Second \Sec"ond\, a. [F., fr. L. secundus second, properly, following, fr. sequi to follow. See {Sue} to follow, and cf. {Secund}.] 1. Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. --Gen. xli. 5. 2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. --Landor. 3. Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge. A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! --Shak. {Second Adventist}. See {Adventist}. {Second cousin}, the child of a cousin. {Second-cut file}. See under {File}. {Second distance} (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also {middle ground}, or {middle distance}. [R.] {Second estate} (Eng.), the House of Peers. {Second girl}, a female house-servant who does the lighter work, as chamber work or waiting on table. {Second intention}. See under {Intention}. {Second story}, {Story floor}, in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the {first floor}, the one beneath being the ground floor. {Second} {thought [or] thoughts}, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. --Dickens. | |
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3. (Racing) A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. --L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being 80 yards in races of mile heats, best two in three, and 150 yards in races of two-mile heats. At that distance from the winning post is placed the distance post. If any horse has not reached this distance post before the first horse in that heat has reached the winning post, such horse is distanced, and disqualified for running again during that race. 4. (Mil.) Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with {interval}, which is measured from right to left. [bd]Distance between companies in close column is twelve yards.[b8] --Farrow. 5. Space between two antagonists in fencing. --Shak. 6. (Painting) The part of a picture which contains the representation of those objects which are the farthest away, esp. in a landscape. Note: In a picture, the {Middle distance} is the central portion between the foreground and the distance or the extreme distance. In a perspective drawing, the {Point of distance} is the point where the visual rays meet. 7. Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. --Locke. 8. Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events. Ten years' distance between one and the other. --Prior. The writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years. --Playfair. 9. The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness. I hope your modesty Will know what distance to the crown is due. --Dryden. 'T is by respect and distance that authority is upheld. --Atterbury. 10. A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve. Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. --Bacon. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. --Milton. 11. Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor. 12. (Mus.) The interval between two notes; as, the distance of a fourth or seventh. {Angular distance}, the distance made at the eye by lines drawn from the eye to two objects. {Lunar distance}. See under {Lunar}. {North polar distance} (Astron.), the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination. {Zenith distance} (Astron.), the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith of the observer. It is the complement of the altitude. {To keep one's distance}, to stand aloof; to refrain from familiarity. If a man makes keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time. --Swift. | |
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Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. [?] a piece of land marked off, land dedicated to a god: cf. F. t[82]mple, from the Latin. Cf. {Contemplate}.] 1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. [bd]The temple of mighty Mars.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. --John x. 23. 3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer? --Buckminster. 4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. [bd]The temple of his body.[b8] --John ii. 21. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? --1 Cor. iii. 16. The groves were God's first temples. --Bryant. {Inner Temple}, [and] {Middle Temple}, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple. | |
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Tenor \Ten"or\, n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See {Tenable}, and cf. {Tenor} a kind of voice.] 1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. --Gray. 2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding. When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. --Shak. Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men? --Spart. 3. Stamp; character; nature. This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor. --Dryden. 4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. --Bouvier. 5. [F. t[82]nor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called because the tenor was the voice which took and held the principal part, the plain song, air, or tune, to which the other voices supplied a harmony above and below: cf. It. tenore.] (Mus.) (a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary. (b) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it. {Old Tenor}, {New Tenor}, {Middle Tenor}, different descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods, by the American colonial governments in the last century. | |
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Middle \Mid"dle\, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [?][?][?][?]. See {Mid}, a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J. Davies. Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. {Middle Ages}, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. {Middle class}, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M. Arnold. {Middle distance}. (Paint.) See {Middle-ground}. {Middle English}. See {English}, n., 2. {Middle Kingdom}, China. {Middle oil} (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and 230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil. {Middle passage}, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies. {Middle post}. (Arch.) Same as {King-post}. {Middle States}, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] {Middle term} (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. --Brande. {Middle tint} (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. --Fairholt. {Middle voice}. (Gram.) See under {Voice}. {Middle watch}, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Middle weight}, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as {light weights}, {heavy weights}, etc. | |
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Middle \Mid"dle\, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [?][?][?][?]. See {Mid}, a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J. Davies. Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. {Middle Ages}, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. {Middle class}, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M. Arnold. {Middle distance}. (Paint.) See {Middle-ground}. {Middle English}. See {English}, n., 2. {Middle Kingdom}, China. {Middle oil} (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and 230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil. {Middle passage}, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies. {Middle post}. (Arch.) Same as {King-post}. {Middle States}, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] {Middle term} (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. --Brande. {Middle tint} (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. --Fairholt. {Middle voice}. (Gram.) See under {Voice}. {Middle watch}, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Middle weight}, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as {light weights}, {heavy weights}, etc. | |
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Middle \Mid"dle\, a. [OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. [?][?][?][?]. See {Mid}, a.] 1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. --Sir J. Davies. Note: Middle is sometimes used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. {Middle Ages}, the period of time intervening between the decline of the Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. {Middle class}, in England, people who have an intermediate position between the aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men, bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M. Arnold. {Middle distance}. (Paint.) See {Middle-ground}. {Middle English}. See {English}, n., 2. {Middle Kingdom}, China. {Middle oil} (Chem.), that part of the distillate obtained from coal tar which passes over between 170[deg] and 230[deg] Centigrade; -- distinguished from the light, and the heavy or dead, oil. {Middle passage}, in the slave trade, that part of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the West Indies. {Middle post}. (Arch.) Same as {King-post}. {Middle States}, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware; which, at the time of the formation of the Union, occupied a middle position between the Eastern States (or New England) and the Southern States. [U.S.] {Middle term} (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion. --Brande. {Middle tint} (Paint.), a subdued or neutral tint. --Fairholt. {Middle voice}. (Gram.) See under {Voice}. {Middle watch}, the period from midnight to four A. M.; also, the men on watch during that time. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Middle weight}, a pugilist, boxer, or wrestler classed as of medium weight, i. e., over 140 and not over 160 lbs., in distinction from those classed as {light weights}, {heavy weights}, etc. | |
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Warbler \War"bler\, n. 1. One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds. In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo. --Tickell. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family {Sylviid[91]}, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under {Reed}), and sedge warbler (see under {Sedge}) are well-known species. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small, often bright colored, American singing birds of the family or subfamily {Mniotiltid[91]}, or {Sylvicolin[91]}. They are allied to the Old World warblers, but most of them are not particularly musical. Note: The American warblers are often divided, according to their habits, into bush warblers, creeping warblers, fly-catching warblers, ground warblers, wood warblers, wormeating warblers, etc. {Bush warbler} (Zo[94]l.) any American warbler of the genus {Opornis}, as the Connecticut warbler ({O. agilis}). {Creeping warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of very small American warblers belonging to {Parula}, {Mniotilta}, and allied genera, as the blue yellow-backed warbler ({Parula Americana}), and the black-and-white creeper ({Mniotilta varia}). {Fly-catching warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of warblers belonging to {Setophaga}, {Sylvania}, and allied genera having the bill hooked and notched at the tip, with strong rictal bristles at the base, as the hooded warbler ({Sylvania mitrata}), the black-capped warbler ({S. pusilla}), the Canadian warbler ({S. Canadensis}), and the American redstart (see {Redstart}). {Ground warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any American warbler of the genus {Geothlypis}, as the mourning ground warbler ({G. Philadelphia}), and the Maryland yellowthroat (see {Yellowthroat}). {Wood warbler} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous American warblers of the genus {Dendroica}. Among the most common wood warblers in the Eastern States are the yellowbird, or yellow warbler (see under {Yellow}), the black-throated green warbler ({Dendroica virens}), the yellow-rumped warbler ({D. coronata}), the blackpoll ({D. striata}), the bay-breasted warbler ({D. castanea}), the chestnut-sided warbler ({D. Pennsylvanica}), the Cape May warbler ({D. tigrina}), the prairie warbler (see under {Prairie}), and the pine warbler ({D. pinus}). See also {Magnolia warbler}, under {Magnolia}, and {Blackburnian warbler}. | |
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Creeper \Creep"er\ (kr[emac]p"[etil]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites, creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. --Burton. 2. (Bot.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia). 3. (Zo[94]l.) A small bird of the genus {Certhia}, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is {C. familiaris}, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also {tree creeper} and {creeptree}. The American black and white creeper is {Mniotilta varia}. 4. A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping. 5. pl. A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often {telegraph creepers}. 6. A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons. 7. pl. An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there. 8. Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen. 9. pl. (Arch.) Crockets. See {Crocket}. | |
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Modality \Mo*dal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. modalit[82].] 1. The quality or state of being modal. 2. (Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic. | |
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Model \Mod"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Modeled}or {Modelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Modeling} or {Modelling}.] [Cf. F. modeler, It. modellare.] To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated. | |
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Model \Mod"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Modeled}or {Modelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Modeling} or {Modelling}.] [Cf. F. modeler, It. modellare.] To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated. | |
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Modulate \Mod"u*late\, v. i. (Mus.) To pass from one key into another. | |
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Modulate \Mod"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Modulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Modulating}.] [L. modulatus, p. p. of modulari to measure, to modulate, fr. modulus a small measure, meter, melody, dim. of modus. See {Mode}.] 1. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion. 2. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many? --Broome. | |
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Modulate \Mod"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Modulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Modulating}.] [L. modulatus, p. p. of modulari to measure, to modulate, fr. modulus a small measure, meter, melody, dim. of modus. See {Mode}.] 1. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion. 2. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many? --Broome. | |
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Modulate \Mod"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Modulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Modulating}.] [L. modulatus, p. p. of modulari to measure, to modulate, fr. modulus a small measure, meter, melody, dim. of modus. See {Mode}.] 1. To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion. 2. To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking. Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many? --Broome. | |
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Modulation \Mod`u*la"tion\, n. [L. modulatio: cf. F. modulation.] 1. The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice. 2. Sound modulated; melody. [R.] --Thomson. 3. (Mus.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations. | |
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Modulator \Mod"u*la`tor\, n. [L.] One who, or that which, modulates. --Denham. | |
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Gossat \Gos"sat\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small British marine fish ({Motella tricirrata}); -- called also {whistler} and {three-bearded rockling}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Motility \Mo*til"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. motilit[82].] (Physiol.) Capability of motion; contractility. | |
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Mottle \Mot"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mottled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mottling}.] [From {Mottled}.] To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. | |
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Mottled \Mot"tled\, a. [From {Motley}.] Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. [bd]The mottled meadows.[b8] --Drayton. | |
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Muddle \Mud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muddling}.] [From {Mud}.] 1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.] He did ill to muddle the water. --L'Estrange. 2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. --Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. --Arbuthnot. 3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [R.] They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. --Hazlitt. 4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. --F. W. Newman. | |
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Muddlehead \Mud"dle*head`\, n. A stupid person. [Colloq.] --C. Reade. -- {Mud"dle-head`ed}, a. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Muddlehead \Mud"dle*head`\, n. A stupid person. [Colloq.] --C. Reade. -- {Mud"dle-head`ed}, a. [Colloq.] --Dickens. | |
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, a. [L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. [?], [?]. Cf. {Mutton}.] 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. | |
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A cetacean, or a sirenian. | |
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mutilated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mutilating}.] 1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. 2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison. {Mutilated gear}, {Mutilated wheel} (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements. | |
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mutilated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mutilating}.] 1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. 2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison. {Mutilated gear}, {Mutilated wheel} (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements. | |
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mutilated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mutilating}.] 1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. 2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison. {Mutilated gear}, {Mutilated wheel} (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements. | |
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mutilated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mutilating}.] 1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. 2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison. {Mutilated gear}, {Mutilated wheel} (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements. | |
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Mutilate \Mu"ti*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mutilated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mutilating}.] 1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. 2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. --Addison. {Mutilated gear}, {Mutilated wheel} (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements. | |
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Mutilation \Mu`ti*la"tion\, n. [L. mutilatio: cf. F. mutilation.] The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part. | |
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Mutilator \Mu"ti*la"tor\, n. [Cf. F. mutilateur.] One who mutilates. | |
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Mutuality \Mu`tu*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. mutualit[82].] 1. The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence. 2. (Law) Reciprocity of consideration. --Wharton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mytiloid \Myt"i*loid\, a. [Mytilus + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family {Mytilid[91]}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mytilotoxine \Myt`i*lo*tox"ine\, n. [Mytilus + toxic.] (Physiol. Chem.) A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Middleton, ID (city, FIPS 52660) Location: 43.70766 N, 116.62398 W Population (1990): 1851 (666 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83644 Middleton, MA Zip code(s): 01949 Middleton, MI Zip code(s): 48856 Middleton, TN (town, FIPS 48340) Location: 35.06030 N, 88.89143 W Population (1990): 536 (247 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38052 Middleton, WI (city, FIPS 51575) Location: 43.10287 N, 89.50633 W Population (1990): 13289 (5895 housing units) Area: 16.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53562 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Middletown, CA Zip code(s): 95461 Middletown, CT (city, FIPS 47290) Location: 41.54837 N, 72.65426 W Population (1990): 42762 (18102 housing units) Area: 105.9 sq km (land), 3.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 06457 Middletown, DE (town, FIPS 47030) Location: 39.45112 N, 75.71466 W Population (1990): 3834 (1475 housing units) Area: 8.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19709 Middletown, IA (city, FIPS 51735) Location: 40.82917 N, 91.26082 W Population (1990): 386 (162 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52638 Middletown, IL (village, FIPS 48853) Location: 40.10064 N, 89.59134 W Population (1990): 436 (185 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62666 Middletown, IN (town, FIPS 49014) Location: 40.05950 N, 85.54275 W Population (1990): 2333 (993 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47356 Middletown, KY (city, FIPS 51978) Location: 38.24247 N, 85.51963 W Population (1990): 5016 (2106 housing units) Area: 12.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 40243 Middletown, MD (town, FIPS 52425) Location: 39.44224 N, 77.54419 W Population (1990): 1834 (738 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 21769 Middletown, MI (CDP, FIPS 53730) Location: 42.98571 N, 84.14491 W Population (1990): 1010 (393 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Middletown, MO (town, FIPS 47900) Location: 39.12853 N, 91.41451 W Population (1990): 217 (114 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63359 Middletown, NC Zip code(s): 27824 Middletown, NY (city, FIPS 47042) Location: 41.44566 N, 74.42247 W Population (1990): 24160 (9475 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Middletown, OH (city, FIPS 49840) Location: 39.50570 N, 84.37358 W Population (1990): 46022 (19385 housing units) Area: 52.3 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45042 Middletown, PA (CDP, FIPS 49144) Location: 40.64370 N, 75.32577 W Population (1990): 6866 (2444 housing units) Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Middletown, PA (borough, FIPS 49128) Location: 40.20090 N, 76.72935 W Population (1990): 9254 (4201 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 17057 Middletown, RI Zip code(s): 02840 Middletown, VA (town, FIPS 51512) Location: 39.02874 N, 78.27787 W Population (1990): 1061 (456 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 22645 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Middletown Sprin, VT Zip code(s): 05757 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Midlothian, IL (village, FIPS 48892) Location: 41.62630 N, 87.72427 W Population (1990): 14372 (5004 housing units) Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Midlothian, TX (city, FIPS 48096) Location: 32.49397 N, 96.99771 W Population (1990): 5141 (2068 housing units) Area: 62.5 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76065 Midlothian, VA Zip code(s): 23112, 23113 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
middle-out implementation See {bottom-up implementation}. |